Combat trauma afflicts women, men alike

In all these years I have met a lot of wonderful people trying to make a difference, offer someone a helping hand and perhaps the most important gift of all is offering hope. Lily has done all of them. She cares about them and wants to help them so she reports on the problems they face like a veteran reporter but Lily has never been satisfied to tell people what is wrong. She wants to tell them what helps so they don't feel as if this is the way the rest of their life has to be. It can change. Because of people like Lily, there is a whole new world opened up for our veterans no matter what age. Read about Healing Combat Trauma and what she has been doing.

Combat trauma afflicts women, men alike
Lily Casura Napa Valley Register
Posted: Sunday, September 19, 2010
A few months ago, I attended the week-long clinical training program in post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) at the National Center for PTSD in Menlo Park (Veterans Administration) as well as the “Brain at War” conference in San Francisco, put on by the Department of Defense. Both made clear how much money is being spent on research ($500 million), but success stories can be hard to find. PTSD affects veterans, their families and communities; it can also lead to suicide.

Current statistics show an active-duty suicide every 36 hours, and that 18 veterans a day die by their own hand. Suicides are on the rise in every branch of the military that’s seen heavy combat in the current wars — Marines, Army, National Guard — and so far this year, there have been more suicides than combat deaths.

The problem extends to women veterans as well. According to the American Psychiatric Association, “Women veterans are two to three times more likely to commit suicide than nonveteran women” — and also die at a younger age, “between 18 and 34.”

Clearly, the problem is serious and troubling. Suicide is the final step on a journey of misery, pain and despair that can potentially be halted earlier, by intervention that increases a veteran’s chances of survival and success.

Five years ago, after writing about integrative medicine for years, I created the nonprofit Healing Combat Trauma, a website devoted to therapeutic resources for veterans with combat-based PTSD. Today, that’s becoming an actual program to lead combat vets with PTSD through, using integrative medicine — “the best of East and West” — to help them recover from the scars of war.
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Combat trauma afflicts women, men alike

Veterans, tiny fish in big pond back home

Veterans, tiny fish in big pond back home
by
Chaplain Kathie

They walk by us everyday. A shaved head, a unit tattoo, a determined walk and once in a while you catch a flash of light as the sun hits a metal leg, but most of the time they show no signs of having been in the places we occasionally read about in newspapers. You know the stories well. As you flip through the pages of your local newspaper, they are the stories you stay away from while searching for movie listings and the latest gossip on your favorite celebrity. You may spend more time on a report if it is in the obituary section but honestly, you may have only read it to see when the funeral will be so you know when to stay away from the area. You may be a very busy, important person with places to go and things to do so your time is precious to you. You may want to disregard what is happening so far away from here because in your mind, if it really mattered, it would be all over the news and there would be no escaping it. With so little reported on Iraq and Afghanistan, you may rationalize it as being something involving less than one percent of the population eliminating the possibility it involves anyone you know. The problem is, you may know them already but have no clue where they’ve been.

They are in your local movie theater. They go to your favorite bar and restaurant. They shop at the same grocery store you do. They go to your church but unless your pastor mentions they are home from a tour of duty, you’d never know it especially with some of the mega size churches around the country. They are on your college campus but they blend right in. They are the few, the proud, the veteran. Tiny fish in a big pond the rest of us live in pursuing our own happiness, worrying about our own lives and what we perceive as problems in them.

We have bills to pay, so do they. We have problems at work, home, in our studies, so do they. We have to put up with jerks driving cars talking on cell phones, so do they. They are just like us. For the most part, they look just like us. We assume they are no more special than we are but we miss the fact that while the rest of us guppies are swimming in the pond they are the ones ready to swim into the mouth of the big fish trying to eat us.

They are the people who join the military and the National Guards because while they want to live with the rest of us they know we need someone to be unselfish for our sake. We want someone else to step up when a storm comes, floods wash away roads, downs power lines, or when a fire threatens to wipe out everything. We want to have them show up but that never seems to translate into us showing up for them.

So here’s our chance. For the homeless veterans there is a Stand Down next weekend in Orlando. Sign up, show up and stand up for them. The information is on the sidebar of this blog. I can’t go. I’ll be in Buffalo with Point Man Ministries. What you’ll see there is not about sadness but about what is possible. You’ll see all kinds of people helping these homeless veterans simply because they care. Other tiny fish stepping up to take care of them for a change will warm your heart and you may even decide to do what you can for them after that. Go and meet these people, find out what happened to them and what you can do to help them.

If you are in one of the colleges here in Central Florida and you think you may see a veteran in one of your classes, ask them. If they are not a veteran then you just put the idea to ask into the head of another tiny fish classmate to wonder if someone he knows is. If they are a veteran then get to know them. Don’t be afraid. You won’t hear any gory stories. As a matter of fact you will hear very little about what they went through because none of them really talk that much to people they know well about any of it. Just know one thing. They were willing to die for you since you live in this country and they wanted to serve for the sake of this country doing what they were told was needed to be done. The politics didn’t matter. All they needed to know was it was what other men and women were being sent to do and they wanted to go too. They risked their lives for the sake of the people they served with but would a friend of yours do the same for you? These people are just like the rest of the tiny fish on the outside but on the inside they are committed, driven and a hell of a lot more compassionate than the rest of us.

If you work for a living, then do the same. Find out if someone is a veteran or not and spend some time getting to know them. If they go to your church, find out if they need any kind of spiritual help and then get the pastor involved. Put a section in your bulletin so that veterans can contact someone for help if they need it or if a National Guards/Reservist family needs some help while their spouse is deployed.

Think of it this way. While you are a tiny fish in this really big pond, wouldn't you want someone else in the pond to care about you? Now top that off with the fact they cared so much they set their lives aside to serve and now they are trying to play catch up.

Friends gather to remember fallen Marine "Pretty Boy Floyd"

When we read stories about their Memorials, we are touched for a time but then we get to go back to our lives as if nothing happened. The family and friends have to go back to living their lives with a piece of their hearts missing. Moms bury sons and daughters. A lifetime of praying and worrying about them, being proud and worried, being hugged and hearing those sweet words, "I'm home" will not be repeated again in over 5,000 homes. Such a small percentage of the population of this country and easy to ignore if we choose to, yet if we do, we miss knowing about men and women who died for our sake.

Friends gather to remember fallen Marine

By Eloísa Ruano González, Orlando Sentinel

4:52 p.m. EDT, September 18, 2010

Memorial service for Marine Gunnery Sgt. Floyd Holley
(Copied by Ricardo Ramirez Buxeda, Orlando Sentinel / September 18, 2010)
A photo shows Marine Gunnery Sgt. Floyd Holley, who was killed in Afghanistan on Aug. 29, on display during a celebration of his life, on Saturday, September 18, 2010, in the auditorium of Lyman High School, where he attended. Holley, a roadside explosives specialist, died after he was hit by a blast from an improvised explosive device.

LONGWOOD — For some of the former Lyman High School students, it was their first time back on campus since their graduation almost two decades ago. They were there on Saturday to honor a classmate who could not join them.

Gunnery Sgt. Floyd Holley never made it home from his third tour of duty in the Middle East. The Marine, who grew up in Casselberry, died Aug. 29 after he was hit by a blast from a homemade bomb in Afghanistan's Helmand province.

Hundreds of friends and relatives gathered in the school's auditorium to pay tribute to their hometown hero. Although somber at times, the memorial was a way for people to relive the happy memories. They shared pictures of Holley, an outgoing, yet, kind-spirited man. In most of the pictures, he wore a big grin on his face, held a beer in his hand or flashed a shaka, a common greeting among surfers. While in the service, he taught an Afghani man and boy to flash shakas. The photo was displayed on a table at the entrance of the auditorium.
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Wife of N.C. Marine copes with husband's suicide

Wife of N.C. Marine copes with husband's suicide

By LINDELL KAY, The Daily News of Jacksonville

Jacksonville, N.C. — Katie Bagosy had been a Marine wife long enough to know when two men in uniform showed up at her front door it meant her husband wasn’t coming home again.

But she expected the visit while he was on one of his deployments, not after he went for a mental health session.

Sgt. Tom Bagosy, 25, died May 10 after shooting himself during a confrontation with base police on McHugh Boulevard.

His wife saw it coming a long time before it happened, she said, but felt helpless to stop the self-destruction of the man she loved.

Bagosy joined the Marine Corps in 2004 and married Katie in 2005. They have two children.

He was deployed to Iraq in 2006 and promoted to sergeant in 2007. He joined Marine Corps Force Special Operations Command in October 2008 and was deployed to Afghanistan. During his tours, he earned several medals, including two Combat Action Ribbons and a Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, according to information from MarSOC.
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Chester County judge voids prison time for Iraq War veteran

Chester County judge voids prison time for Iraq War veteran
Published: Saturday, September 18, 2010
By Michael P. Rellahan, Special to The Mercury

WEST CHESTER — A Chester County Court judge erased a proposed prison term for an Iraq War veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder after the man's attorney argued that the combat horrors he survived in that country justified a reduced sentence.

"I figure this country owes him," attorney John Duffy of West Chester told Common Pleas Court Judge William P. Mahon, who was set to sentence Robert Allen Delaney to 20 days in Chester County Prison as part of Delaney's acceptance into the county's Recovery Court program for repeat offenders with substance abuse and psychological problems.

Mahon, in forgoing the jail term in favor of an increased amount of time Delaney will spend on electronic home monitoring, recalled the way that some veterans were treated when they returned from the Vietnam War. No one said, "Welcome, home," he remarked.
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Illness kills soldier from Fort Gordon

Sergeant dies in Iraq
Illness kills soldier from Fort Gordon

By Adam Folk
Staff Writer
Friday, Sept. 17, 2010

The Fort Gordon soldier who died Thursday in Iskandariya, Iraq, of an illness had spent most of his career in Augusta.

Sgt. John Franklin Burner III, 32, was deployed with the 63rd Expeditionary Signal Battalion, which is part of the 35th Signal Brigade, according to Buz Yarnell, a Fort Gordon spokesman.

Burner, who was originally from Baltimore, left Fort Gordon with his unit Aug. 21 to work as a satellite systems team chief.
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Confessions of an over 50 college student

Confessions of an over 50 college student
by
Chaplain Kathie

Hard to believe I'm heading into the 4Th week of college. Not that it is so hard the time has gone by so fast but that I survived this long! One thing wrong at a time, feeling totally lost learning how to use a MAC while trying to keep my PC from doing the death rattle, topped off with a heavy dose of tech programs that would make anyone my age want to run away. It hasn't been all bad. Some of these programs have me all excited about the potential these challenges will provide in the long run if my professors don't kill me first. I am attending Valencia Community College and going for a certificate in Digital Media and Post Production. It would be great to be able to find a job that pays after all of this but that was not the goal when I decided to go. I wanted to make videos a lot better than I have been. Teaching myself how to make them was one thing but these programs are amazing! They are also complicated but I am in a learning curve since I've been out of school so long.

Two years ago I trained with other people my age or older to be a Chaplain. Since then it's been one training after another, again with people in my age group. We all had the same problems along with a lot in common. Twelve years ago I went back to college for a certificate in Microsoft Office programs. That grouping was a blend of all ages and most of us were there because of our jobs. The "new" programs back then were required for most of the jobs people like me had been doing since high school. Speaking of high school, when I went nothing was done on a computer! We were lucky to have a typing class on electric typewriters. (It is like just having a keyboard attached to a printer and it is all powered by your brain connected to your fingers. No spell check!)

So now I am in class with a bunch of great kids my daughter's age and I feel like a proud Mom astounded by what they are able to do along with a heavy dose of possibilities as they think about what they want to do in life. They were flying through the lessons while I was still trying to keep my files off the desktop and put into the "docking" station at the bottom of the MAC. Once I finally figured out where all the minimized files I had went to, it was too late to figure out where the professor had jumped too. Thank God there is a great kid next to me to help me find what I thought was lost. I have an online class I totally blew and I'll be lucky if I can ever make up for giving that professor gray hair. Then I have an art class when for whatever reason, I'm doing well even though I used to have trouble connecting the dots. What really has me nervous is as hard as these three classes are, there is another one starting next month! Lord have mercy on me.

That leads me to the next point of all of this. I spent the last 15 years or so online trying to reach out to the younger generation almost as hard as I had been trying to reach the veterans from Vietnam. To be able to do it right, I had to learn how to use things from the world they live in and then run with them. People are still people no matter how old they are and something like PTSD does not change. The way we help them has to change or it will do little good. There are organizations all over the country, established and with plenty of knowledge along with power but what they don't have is someone to catch them up to speed on how people communicate now.

They don't want to read a book. They want to read a Facebook post or a Tweet. They don't want to watch a documentary, they want to watch a movie. They don't play bingo or board games, they play video games. While all the other things are find and dandy depending on the generation you are trying to deal with, all you do has to be geared to where they are. We can put our foot down and say they have a lot to learn from us. While that is absolutely true, we cannot forget that we have a lot to learn from them. Too tell you the truth, I learn a lot more from watching a report than reading one. I read way too many emails and then follow the links to a fraction of the posts you read here. Honestly, I am bored with the vast majority of them. I especially don't like the reports that have no emotion tied to them as if reporters are holding their noses having to report on a soldier's death just offering his name, age, maybe if you're lucky they'll toss in where he went to school but for the most part it is a blend of the DOD release and an obituary. Anything personal is just too much for them to pay attention to. I pass those right by because I won't glorify some hack that can't give a fallen solider a little bit of interest. Anyway, all that aside, since I am used to reading these reports, if I get bored, than don't you think someone not used to reading them would zone out and quit reading?

We have to keep up with them or we will be letting them all down.

If you happen to be in college with more life experience than most of your classmates have been alive, reach out a hand to them and don't you dare be ashamed you have to ask them for help. After all, think of it this way. They have no clue how to change the channel on the TV if they can't find the remote! We know what hardship is because we had to get up and do it all the time.

Solution for an Army epidemic at Fort Gordon

Solution for an Army epidemic Feedback...
Why is it important to give to Combined Federal Campaign?
Staff Sgt. E. Douglas Blair III
Special to The Signal
By Bonnie Heater Feedback...


When I started studying journalism in college I asked my professor what was in a great journalistic piece. He said that the trick was to take a subject and try to answer the questions that the normal person might have by the end of the article. This is no easy task with a subject like suicides in the Army and how to prevent them. The suicide rate has become an epidemic and if that word isn’t scary enough, then numbers like one Soldier every three days commits suicide should mortify you. In fact, according to the Department of Defense, the rate of suicides has increased from a record high of 128 in 2008 to a whopping 147 reported suicides in 2009 and over 170 this fiscal year. Nearly everyone has been touched in some form or fashion by suicide. Soldiers, like myself, are required to attend a class every six months or so and told how to deal with a fellow Soldier that is feeling depressed. Ask, Care and Escort have been the mantra of recent years and each Soldier is required to have an ACE card with them at all times. But what do we ask and how do we care and what if there is no one readily available to deal with a Soldier, friend, loved one, co-worker, etc. that has real feelings of suicide? The ACE card is like putting a bandage on a sucking chest wound (by the way, all chest wounds suck).

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Solution for an Army epidemic

Fort Bragg reassures homes OK after baby deaths

Bragg reassures homes OK after baby deaths

Chief of staff for 82nd Airborne says he’s confident housing is safe
The Associated Press
Posted : Friday Sep 17, 2010 17:22:06 EDT

SPOUT SPRINGS, N.C. — Fort Bragg officials are telling military families they don't need to fear for their children's health while living in housing on the sprawling Army post.

The Fayetteville Observer reported military leaders held a community meeting Thursday at an elementary school in Spout Springs. They wanted to answer questions about an Army investigation of the unexplained deaths of 10 infants in Fort Bragg housing in recent years.

About 70 people attended the meeting.
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Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer on President's Advisory Committee

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release September 15, 2010
President Obama Announces More Key Administration Posts
WASHINGTON – Today, President Barack Obama announced his intent to appoint the following individuals to key administration posts:

Jill Appell, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Pamela G. Bailey, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
C. Fred Bergsten, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Bobbi Brown, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Michael E. Campbell, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Lisa Carty, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Governor Chris Christie, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Michael Ducker, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Mayor Buddy Dyer, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations John B. Emerson, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Bill Frenzel, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Dean Garfield, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Leo W. Gerard, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Joseph T. Hansen, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
James P. Hoffa, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Robert Holleyman, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Sandra Kennedy, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Jim Kolbe, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Fred Krupp, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
David Lane, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Kase Lawal, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Robert A. McDonald, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Harold McGraw III, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Wade Randlett, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Robert W. Roche, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Matthew Rubel, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
David H. Segura, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Bob Stallman, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
John Surma, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
Luis Ubiñas, Member, Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations
President Obama said, “I am grateful that these highly qualified men and women have agreed to lend their talents to this administration as we work to boost our nation’s exports over the next five years. When ninety-five percent of the world’s customers are beyond our borders, it is crucial that we compete for that business and those jobs. And we need to do so in a way that is responsible and fair, and that levels the playing field for American workers. I look forward to the wise counsel these individuals will provide on these issues as we work together in the coming months and years.”

The Advisory Committee for Trade Policy and Negotiations is tasked with providing policy advice on trade matters, and is made up of members who broadly represent key sectors and groups of the economy. The President will announce additional members to this Committee at a later date.
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When Stubborn Pride Takes Control, time to sort out excuses from issues

This was sent from Lily Casura over at Healing Combat Trauma and it is a wonderful piece written by a Vietnam vet trying to come to terms with life in this "new normal" world.

When Is PTSD NOT PTSD? When Stubborn Pride Takes Control

Editor's note: We're not giving you medical or psychological advice here; consult with your own health care practitioner for that. What we are doing is sharing a longtime PTSD sufferer's opinion with you about his own situation, on the off-chance that it may instruct or enlighten. We have the feeling, now that he's outed himself, others may quite enjoy learning the distinctions he shares from his own life. And when we say "others," we mean spouses, significant others and family members...

From the subject of "Eyewitness to Combat," a Vietnam vet, Marine, with 40 years of "experience" on the subject:

"Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder has many faces and it sometimes masquerades as a behavioral problem; conversely, there are times when behavioral abnormalities masquerade as PTSD. In other words, sometimes PTSD is mistaken for just stubborn Pride; and sometimes stubborn Pride is excused as PTSD. There is also a third face, the one in which we appear completely “Normal.” So the “trick” becomes knowing which one is in control – the PTSD one; the PRIDEFUL one; or the NORMAL one.

One of the most frustrating and difficult problems in sorting this out with traumatized MST or PTSD combat vets is that by their very nature, MST and PTSD sufferers are very complicated individuals, to say the least. It’s almost as if we are different people at different times. And in fact we are. My wife used to say she “never knew which one” of me “was coming home.” In other words: “PTSD really screws us up: mentally, emotionally, socially, personally, professionally and physically”. However on many of the occasions that get blamed on PTSD, it is in fact our own personality “quirks” that have intervened, kidnapped and magnified the suffering from PTSD. And in the healing process, this habitual behavior must be sorted out before any true healing can “stick.” It’s true that we can be healed from our PTSD “disorder” but also allow our pride, habitual bad habits and negative attitude to completely mask any real improvement.

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When Stubborn Pride Takes Control

Michigan airman killed while disposing explosives in Iraq

Michigan airman killed while disposing explosives in Iraq
BY MATT HELMS
FREE PRESS STAFF WRITER
An airman from west Michigan has died in Iraq, killed while disposing of undetonated explosives.

Military officials on Wednesday notified the family of Senior Airman Jimmy Hansen, 25, that he was killed while on duty at Joint Base Balad, an air base about 42 miles north of Baghdad.

The Defense Department issued an official news release Thursday, saying Hansen died Wednesday of wounds from a controlled detonation.

"He went down to help a fellow Air Force member dispose of some undetonated explosives, and something went wrong," Hansen's brother, Rich Hansen Jr., told the Free Press on Thursday. "That's all we've got right now."



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Arlington officials broke their word to Marine's Dad on disinterment

Marine's father: Arlington officials broke their word on disinterment
Scott Warner just wanted to make sure his son's remains were properly buried, but officials wouldn't cooperate
Scott Warner traveled to Washington from Canton, Ohio, this week for the disinterment of his son’s remains at Arlington National Cemetery. Warner wanted to be sure his son Heath, a Marine killed in Iraq in 2006, was buried in the right spot. He was worried because the Arlington National Cemetery scandal, uncovered by Salon in a yearlong investigation, had unnerved him, and some of his son’s burial paperwork contained disturbing discrepancies.

The media covered Heath’s disinterment Wednesday closely, including the conclusion that Heath was buried correctly. But that's far from the whole story.

"This thing has been portrayed as some big success story," Warner told Salon during a telephone interview Thursday as he drove back to Ohio. "It was a disaster. It was a desecration of honor."

It was also macabre. Warner says what really happened that day shows just how far the public trust in Arlington has evaporated and that the Army should be stripped of oversight of the cemetery. "Did I expect to be digging through my son’s casket looking for an arm? No," he said.

"For a family to go through what my family went through yesterday is beyond reproach."
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Arlington officials broke their word on disinterment

Camp Lejeune cancer link is not a rumor

To this day, after all these years, many ex-Marines have no clue about any of this. Some think it's just a rumor and they don't think it is real. How could anyone easily understand that serving this country would put them in danger on US soil on their own base? They simply haven't been paying attention to what has been released about toxic bases around the country any more than they have been told by the broadcast media about any of this. When they hear reports from friends or by email, they think is has to be a rumor or they would have heard about it watching the news.

Marines with cancer decry Corps' silence about tainted water
They tell Congress of their struggle to get full disclosure about contamination at Camp Lejeune.

By Kim Geiger, Tribune Washington Bureau

September 16, 2010


Reporting from Washington — When Peter Devereaux arrived at Camp Lejeune in December 1980, he had no idea that officials were looking into unsafe levels of toxic chemicals in the drinking water.

As a Marine stationed at the sprawling military base along the North Carolina shore, Devereaux said, he led a healthy lifestyle. When he was diagnosed in early 2008 with a rare disease — male breast cancer — Devereaux did not connect his illness to Camp Lejeune.

But six months after he'd had his left breast and 22 cancerous lymph nodes removed, he received a letter from the Department of the Navy informing him that in the 1980s, "unregulated chemicals were discovered" in the drinking water at the camp's Hadnot Point water distribution system.

Drinking water in various areas of the camp had been contaminated with trichloroethylene and tetrachloroethylene — chemicals used to clean metals and dry-clean clothes — and benzene, a chemical found in fuel. All are believed to cause cancer.
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Marines with cancer decry Corps silence